The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-22
The saMs OLD GANG.
Reappearance I'm Public Life of Corru2
Republican Party Leaders


Renppearance in Public Life of Corru2
Republican Party Leaders
There are many signs of renewed &C
tivity in the Republican party. Their
has been, so to speak, yitalizing cur
rent directed toward its old leaders
and we have q great stirring anon!
dead bones.
First to reappear was Hon. William
T. Chandler. representative Repub
lican from New Hampshire. Mr.. Chan
dler is politician with varied convic
tons and manipulation without con
science. When he enters 4 politica
contest he will win at any cost, law OF
no law. He will do all he can to &c
the votes, but his chief reliance is il
the returning boards. His politica
maxim is: II care not who does the
voting if l may do the counting"
Mr.. Chandler's methods were so con,
trary to law and morals that there
came within his own party revolt
against him, and he was compelled tc
seek the seclusioE which private life
affords. For awhile we heard no more
OF the distinguished successor of Robe.
son, but after a short rest, convinced
that the moral spasm had spent its
force, and especially confident that the
Republican party needed and was
ready to accept the services of such
adopts, he announced himself a candi-
date for the Senate and was elected.
The second gentleman whose repu-
tation consigned him to privacy for a
brief space was Mr.. NJ S. Quay, long
distinguished as a political leader OF
peculiar kind in Pennsylvania. Mr..
Quay has been exceedingly servicea-
bic, after manner. in many political
campaigns in Pennsylvania, and, con-
scious that the party is about to enter
a very doubtful National campaign,
Mr.. Quay has been sent to Washing
ton by the Pennsylvania Legislature,
and what Mr. Chandler does not know
of the dark ways and devious paths of
politics Mr.. Quay will teach him.
Hearing of silent revolution which
has resulted in once more bringing
Mr.. Chandler and Mr.. Quay to the
front, Boss Shepherd, who has been
making mythical fortunes in the dim
and distant West, returns to Washing
ton, the scene of his former triumphs.
His reception has been all he could ex-
pect He is hailed as martyr to puri-
tanical prejudice against the violation
of all the rules of commercial morality.
The press and his personal partisans
point to Washington as his creation,
kindly drawing vail over the finan-
cial history of the period. and saying
nothing of the bills Congress had to
pay. Shepherd proceeded on the
Tweed idea, that if he let the people
see something for the money he was
spending, the disproportion between
taxes and results would not attract at
tention. So he proceeded to dazzle
the people of Washington, the press
and Congress. He evidently believes
the country is anxious to be dazzled
again, and so he returns ready for the
work.
In addition to the temperance of
these distinguished gentlemen ex-Sena-
tor Stephen w, Dorsey is discovered
among the haunts of politicians and
newspaper reporters. The reporter
found him engaged as a good Samari-
tan in sending food and clothes to q
man he once knew, and supposlng that
this is the kind of charity that covers
a multitude of sins, the reporter con-
cluded the country was eager to have
MIR. Dorsey's views of the political sit
uation, and he is interviewed at length.
What he had to say is of less signifi-
canoe than the supposition that Dorsey
again ''has political views"
Chandler, Quay, Shepherd and Dor
sey! Thus begins the new list of the
men whom the Republican party de-
lighted to honor and in whose breast
hope revives under the belief that
Hon. James G. Blaine is about to tri-
umph over all his enemies to the end
less confusion of the mugwumps who
once forced these gentlemen into re-
tirement. But where are Robson and
Belknap and host of others who
guided the destinles and disgraced the
name of the Republican party in the
brave days of charlottesville Courier